DRC

In the DRC, the 26 provincial governors are summoned to Kinshasa for a conference on President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi.

Félix Tshisekedi received on Saturday, December 26 in Kinshasa, Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba. Until then, these two heavyweights in the Congolese political landscape sided with the opposition. Just after the announcement of the end of the coalition that linked Félix Tshisekedi to Joseph Kabila, in early December, Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba gave their support to the current President of the Republic. Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived in Kinshasa on Saturday without a drum or trumpet. The two…

Customs duties on this disaster, which took place on Wednesday 23 December on this border lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, have been revised upwards. We are now talking about 41 corpses found in the lake. as reported from Kinshasa, Commander Muzembe Commander41 bodies were recovered from Lake Albert…

A pirog turned on Lake Albert on Wednesday as it traveled with its passengers from the DRC to Uganda. Several people died. Several people have died and others are missing after a shipwreck that occurred at Lake Albert on Wednesday. A pirog turned around as he traveled with his passengers from the DRC to Uganda to buy or sell…

After almost ten years of exclusion, the Democratic Republic of the Congo will once again be able to take advantage of the trade preferences offered by AGOA. This decision was taken by the outgoing US President Donald Trump, as the US appears to be one of President Tshisekedi's privileged allies. On 19 May 2020, Constance…

The rift continues between President Tshisekedi's camp and his predecessor Joseph Kabila. One of the battlefields is the Federation of Congo Businesses (FEC) and the election of the chief. A relative of the former head of state, Albert Yuma, has been at the helm since 2005. The only candidate, he was re-elected chairman of the board on November 26, but the prime minister suspended his election to the…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the city of Lubumbashi, called the Copper City of the DRC, is also known for its malachite artwork, ornaments and jewelry. This green stone is a derivative of copper. The city has a dozen craft workshops that employ hundreds of people. But only now, since the liberalization of the mining sector in 2002 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is malachite becoming…

The blatant trial of eight Lucha activists began on Monday before a military tribunal in Beni, northern Kivu. They were arrested last Saturday when the civic movement demanded demonstrations against the renewal of the mandate for the UN mission Monusco. According to police, they deliberately attacked a police station in revenge for the ban on their demonstration and attacked police. A version that…

Book Express, founded a year ago by a passionate reader, Alpha Ramazani, is one of the only bookstores in Kinshasa. But to allow readers in his hometown to also have access to the latest novels, the latest French-speaking essays or documents, he commutes between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Kong and departs regularly at Kinshasa Airport, with suitcases folded with sweat in his forehead. Its…

The city of Pinga in northern Kivu was in July and August 2020 the scene of collisions between two factions of the armed group Nduma Defense of Congo-Rénové (NDC-R) led by Guidon Shimiray and Gilbert Bwira. The situation calmed down. There are fewer large-scale attacks on the city, but uncertainty is still present. With our…